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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,269, dated May 1, 1888.

Application filed March 24, 1887.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY C. PRICE, a citizen of the United. States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Olothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

. This invention relatos to improved devices for supporting, stretching, and manipulating the lines used for supporting clothes while drying them, they pertaining more especially to devices for. these purposes adapted to be used on roofs or in similar places, though they are also applicable for use in yards and where the lines are suspended by means of posts embeda ded in the ground.

n Figure l is a plan view of devices embody lng my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side view of the saine... Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the end frames. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the structure, taken from the opposite end. Fig. 5 is a sect-ion on the line .fr m, Fig. 3. Figs. 6 to 8 show the details of parts slightly modified in respect to the construction shown in Figs. l and 2. Figs. 9 and 10 are sections of the feet or pedestals of the frame.

In the drawings I have shown asupport for the frame-work, it being indicated at A A. This may be the roof of the house, or a platform, or (as concerns the use of the invention Y under some circumstances) it may represent the surface of the ground.

B B represent posts or standards at one of the end frames. These are constructed of tubing in sections of such length and diameter as to attain the desired end. As shown, there are couplings b b b2, joined by sections b4. The

lower section, b3, is connected to the pedestal b5, which, as shown, consists of an expanded plate having an upwardly-projecting boss connected by a thread to the section b3. l The coupling bconnects the end standards, B, with a horizontal bar, B4, also formed of tubing and extending from side to side of the frame.

B2 B2 are intermediate uprights or posts, these having pedestals and being united by couplings or otherwise to the bar B4.

E is a top bar or tube connected to the up rights B B by means of couplings at b2.

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By employing tubing and ceuplings of substantially the character shown a frame-work can be easily and cheaply constructed. On the support A', which may be part of the same roof as that shown at A, or may be a distant roof or another part of the surface of the ground, there is arranged a frame in some re spects similar to that above described, it having standards or uprights B and a top horizontal bar or tube, E. These parts are made firm and rigid by means of braces C, which are inclined and joined to the bars B by couplings c', or they may be welded, bolted, or otherwise fastened, and at the lower end these braces are similarly secured to pedestals or footpieces c. The standards or uprights B are fastened to pedestals b5.

The above-described frame at the ether end of the apparatus (indicated at B BZB) is braced by means of vertical parts' D and horizontal connecting parts d d', the parts at D having pedestal or. foot pieces b5. In some respects the bracing of this last-described sort is preferable, as the couplings, nipples, gte., are of the ordinary construction. Moreover, these bracing devices at D d can be utilized for supporting the platform upon which the person stands when attaching the articles to 'the line.

The lines are represented by .F F, they being supported upon the top cross-bars, E E-, Each line is endless and is supported upon pulleys G H.

The pulleys H are secured to the bar or tube E by means of bands I-I tightly clamped to the bar or tube. I prefer to make each as semi-rings with flanges h, through which bolts h can pass, the threads of the bolts engaging with nuts h2. A suitable form is shown in Fig. 8, it having a hook or eye, h3, for secur` ing the pulley H, which latter may be of the kind shown in Figs. l and 2 or of that in Fig. 6, that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 being mounted in the open end of a fork by a pivot passing through the ends of the fingers of the fork and through the pulley, while in Fig. 6 the pulley is shown mounted in a stirrup, g, upon a pivot passing through the legs of the stirrup about midway between their ends, the eye g being connected to the open end of the stirrup.

The pulleys G are so mounted that their pivots or shafts can be moved toward and s Y esatte from the pulleys H, so that the ropes F can be made ver taut or loosened, as may be required. his can be accomplished in several ways. In Figs. 1, 3, 4, and the pulley G is show n as being carried by a rocking lever, I, fulcrumed upon the bar E, the short arm z' carrying the pulley, and the longer arm, v7, projecting downward. The latter is adapted to be grasped and moved to and fro and to be locked after the rope is tightened, the lock being of any suitable character. In Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 5 it is locked by` a movable perforated plate, J, secured to the cross-bar B* by aring, j. After the lever has been brought down the part J is turned around until it engages with the hook at i2, and when the rope is'to be loosened the part J is moved away from the lever. The part of ithe lever which engages With the bar or tube E is preferably formed of two half-rings or segments bolted together and forming a hinge-eye for the lever; or, when preferred, the locking part J j may be xed rigidly on the bar B4, when the hook i2 can be pivoted to the lever I, as shown in Fig. 7.

The manner of using these devices will be readily understood. The lever I is first released and its pulley G is allowed to move in a short distance. After this the line or rope F can be readily moved to and fro around the pulleys G and Hto permit the fastening thereto of the clothes. l After the line has been loaded the lever is drawn in the opposite direction and fastened by means ofthe locking part Jj. In order to prevent the roof from being marred, and. also in order to enable the operator to easily reach the line, I provide a platform which is elevated to any suitable height. As shown, it is composed of the longitudinal bars K and the cross-boards K, the whole forming a detachable ooring, which can be supported at either end upon the above-deany preferred or suitable dimensions.

scribed bracingframe D d d. This may be of Thus it will be seen that a frame of this kind having parallel horizontal bars d d projecting rearward or inward from the frame B B2 B* is say, having the parts d d-is very strong and not so liable to be broken at the couplings as would be a frame with but a single horizontal bar or pipe-section supported from the roof at its inner end.

I am aware that structures of various sorts have been heretofore made of iron tubing, among others articles of furniture, and I do not claim such structures, broadly, as my invention.

It is a matter of great convenience in a structure of this sort that each line should be mounted at one end upon a roller carried by a separate and independent lever, whereby the tension of each line can be independently adjusted, and whereby, also, each line can be moved around its roller or pulley without requiring that all the lines of the series, with their loads, should be moved at the same time. All of the pulleys H are supported on a common bar, E', and yet are practically inde,- pendent of each other, which is also true of the pulleys G and their supporting-levers I. By making the hinging or attaching devices for the pulleys and levers inthe way shown, the lines can be placed comparatively close together and a small area can be made available for a large amount of Work.

W'hat I claim is-` 1. In an apparatus for drying clothes, the combination of the end frames having the top bars,E E', the series of independent pulleys E, all supported on the said bar E', the opposite series of independent pulleys G, the series of independent hinged levers arranged parallel to each other and all supported in common on the said bar E, the series of independent endless lines, respectively supported onthesaid pulleys and levers, and the series of independent fastening devices for the said levers, substantially as set forth.

2. In an apparatus for drying clothes, the combination, with the frame having the top horizontal bar E and the lower horizontal bar, B4, the endless lines, the pulleys G, and the levers I, hinged to the top bar E, of the fastening devices for the levers, having the hinged lock-pieces J, connected to the said bar B, substantially as set forth.

-In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY C. PRICE.

Witnesses:

J. HOMER HILDRETH, SAM. TRO. SMITH.

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